Wavetamer swam around the underwater city the houses were made of materials that water could get through and the entrances have holes that go down the up then you must open a hatch and then close it. She shot up out of the water did a loop and landed on an island and looked like the sun rose over Hitoria. “Wavetamer you could be seen” another dragonet 2 years older than her said as he got out of the water more stealthily “the forest dragons are the only tribe that can see us and their passive, they barely even eat meat” Wavetamer argued. She leapt and sprang her wings out as she watched the forest “what’s life like there, how’s their queen or king” her mind flooded with questions “will I ever meet one”. she stopped she heard stories about other dragons how dangerous they are, well most of them but she wanted to know a living dragon to see one for herself.

“Wavetamer” he said breaking her thoughts “meeting with the queen” “fine Coralcrasher” she sighed before somersaulting into the water she swam to the palace, using the current to make her faster. She dived in the hole and surfaced into the place letting the light reflect off her scales “the queen is going to hate me” she smiled before landing on the marble floor and sat with the rest of her family in front of the queen. She sat on her throne with a scowling look on her face above her was a golden dragon that majestically curled around the shining blue stone “is it hard trying to be prettier than me” the queen questioned.

Wavetamer looked at the queen who had dozens of jewels on her “will my parents lose my job if I say no” Wavetamer asked “yes” the queen scowled “then you have you answer” Wavetamer told “anyway” her dad cut off before the queen could yell back “we saw some forest dragons come out of the forest and one entered the hut” “poor babies I bet they don’t know what good looking is” the queen tsked “they might think something is in there that they can use to defeat us” Coralcrusher suggested “what part of passive don’t you understand they probably want something in the house but not for that” Wavetamer disagreed “send more spies if they think they’ll find anything in that hut they are brain dead” the queen insisted.

The family swam out the palace, her mom and dad headed for the cliff while Coralcrasher went in the other direction. “Where does my adopted brother always go at this time of day” she wondered but she would have to find that out later. She swam close to the ground to not be spotted “forest dragons I thought they stayed in the forest, why would they be at the hut” she thought. When they reached the cliff her mom dad and the other dragons who came shot out of the water and into a cave that was just above the shoreline. Wavetamer clung to a rock that jutted out of the water and climbed up the side that they couldn’t see her.

“how’s Wavetamer” one dragon said “still teasing the queen” her mother said “she’s going to get banished that way” another person said. Wavetamer tried shutting off the voices and looked up “would anyone notice if I just had a peak” she thought she climbed further up the rock as they joked “this could be my one chance to see them” she was almost on top of the rock, no one noticed her yet “don’t catch me” she thought as she reached the top “this is it the time I finally meet a dragon that’s not from my tribe” she pushed off the rock and soared into the air “Wavetamer what are you doing” a cry from below called.

Wavetamer looked down and saw her mother flying just below her. Wavetamer sighed and sat on the rock she was hiding behind “I just wanted to meet one” Wavetamer whined “and what if they trick you into liking them and you spill all of her secrets” her mother warned her, and her dad are the only people in the family that aren’t paranoid that dragons from other tribes want to attack them I mean who would conquer a kingdom they can’t even breath in. “Don’t you think you’re overreacting just a tiny bit” Wavetamer told “there’s probably no reason forest dragons are here, we should just tell the queen there’s nothing of value” a sea dragon said “one of us should stay just in case” her father asked “I will, you all go” the dragon that suggested the idea said the rest of the sea dragons went.

“Come on” her mother told “can’t I stay with you” she insisted “no” both said firmly “fine” Wavetamer gave up. She was about to go into the water when she looked back at the top of the cliff “smoke, but that would mean”. “there’s fire up there” she shouted “that’s impossible” the dragon told her; did she imagine it or was there a glint of terror in his eyes. “Smoke equals fire” she shouted before launching herself up the cliff “get down this instant” her mother and the other dragon called but she didn’t stop “why was there fire, what were the forest dragons doing”.

Her question was answered as 2 dragonets were launched off the cliff followed by 5 dragons “are those dark dragons” she worried as she flew away from the chaos. a large spike jutted out of the wall, but a dark dragon blew fire at it “how did he do that” she wondered. He saw the wooden spike hit one of the dark dragons. The dark dragon went out of control and a wing knocked another one. One of the forest dragons went after the dragon, but the wooden spike was plummeting down towards him, so the other forest dragon pushed the first one out of the way and the wooden spike hit him and he lost consciousness, she heard the forest dragon that was pushed out of the way screamed Treeseeker.

“Was that his name” she thought before she realized that she was zooming towards the dark dragons. Crack Wavetamer smacked a dark dragon with her tail into the cliff and grabbed Treeseeker and the stone he was holding. She rushed towards the other one and grabbed him “watch out” the forest dragon said, and she turned, and her wing collided with something “we have to get her” Leafjumper said as she pointed to the dark dragon who was fending off several dragons “ok but I have to set you down” she said as she gently put them in the cave and rushed off to help her. Wavetamer bit into a dark dragon’s tail causing his head to jerk and shoot fire at the cliff.

The rocks plummeted on top of a dark dragon, and he circled the dragon to avoid the swipes and whacked him on the top of his head and sprayed water in his eyes. Wavetamer charged at the dragon that had a chain around the dragon’s snout “attacking your own tribe really” she said before headbutting him away from her “we’re not going to win this, you need to get out of here” the dark dragon said “not without you” Wavetamer told “don’t worry about me just help them” she said as she pointed at the cave “can I at least know your name” she asked “Magicstar” she smiled and raced after the dark dragons and flew away “good luck, Magicstar” Wavetamer talked before going to the cave.

“Will he be ok” Wavetamer worried “he should be ok but is there a safer place to sleep tonight?" the forest dragon asked said politely “you can stay at the palace” the sea dragon said. The forest dragon narrowed his eyes “but by the time you tell her and she figure’s out how to get us to the palace without drowning the night will already be gone”. “We also found this dragon nearly before Wavetamer grabbed you” the sea dragon told showing a bleeding and broken black dragon. The forest dragon looked like just looked happy but also sad at once “I would like to bury him if you don’t mind” he finally said.

They decided to take them to the island she was on just that morning. “So, care to tell us why your being chased” the sea dragon asked, “shouldn’t you be telling important messages to the queen” the forest dragon scoffed. He sighed angrily and dove in the water “she doesn’t seem to trust me, by the way I’m Leafjumper” he asked as he observed her mother acting like she was ready for him to shoot venom at her “that’s my mother she doesn’t trust any dragon that’s from a different tribe” she told. They sat in front of the place where the dark dragon was buried “who was he” Wavetamer asked.

Leafjumper told the story of everything that happened the chief’s death, the advisor being a dark dragon how they ended up going off the cliff “why do you trust me” Wavetamer questioned “they wouldn’t send a dragonet for a spy, your mother, father and siblings if you have any shouldn’t be” Leafjumper explained “you think he’s a dark dragon” she realised “what is he like” Leafjumper asked “dad says he is likeable but I guess he shouldn’t have sent the others because he thought nothing was going” Wavetamer stopped “to happen” she finished “so it’s safe to assume that he’s a dark dragon but why were you there” he questioned. Wavetamer told him all she knew, ignoring the looks her mother was giving her “wow your queen sounds worse than our new chief” Leafjumper told than looked as though he was thinking “not by much though” he eventually said before seeing that the sun was going down and he curled up beside his still brother “please be ok” she thought as she watched the slow lowing sun.

She woke up the sun glowing in her eyes and Leafjumper was already up staring at the forest “must be hard not being able to see the ones you love” Wavetamer asked as she sat beside him “I’ll see them again” he said hopefully “that’s what my brother would have said anyway” he told as he looked at his brother “is he as good as you say” Wavetamer wondered “probably better” Leafjumper chuckled. Sea dragons started to walk out of the water and circle Leafjumper while also pushing her out of the way. The queen emerged from the water and landed in front of Leafjumper and probably was expecting him to cower or admire her, but Leafjumper just looked at her with an expression that said ‘really’.

“I bet you have heard of me” the queen said as she went into an elegant but unnecessary pose “you might have been mentioned once or twice” Leafjumper questioned. The queen scoffed and said, “I’m queen Waterruler” the queen circled him “if you try to attack me you will surely meet the same fate as your friend” the queen called and Leafjumper clenched the sand he was standing on “we just want help and security” Leafjumper told “why don’t you go back to the forest kingdom” the queen asked in a superior. Leafjumper gave a worrying look at Treeseeker who the sea dragons were looking at “we would’ve done that if we could, but we can’t so just let me, and my brother stay here until he gets better, and we’ll be out of your scales” Leafjumper told.

Wavetamer wondered why a dragon would be in her scales but she just waited until the sea dragons left except the ones that were helping Treeseeker “you are in big trouble” Coralcrasher said “there dragonets they are obviously not going to attack us” Wavetamer argued “don’t you find it odd that they haven’t told us anything” “one of them is unconscious and the other has full right not to tell us anything” Wavetamer finished before walking over to Leafumper. Leafjummper noticed her come over and nodded as they walked in the woods “so if I heard correctly, we need to get the stone as soon as possible” she whispered “yes, and if I heard correctly “it’s in the centre of the dragon statue above the throne” Leafjumper said “and you can’t get there without losing your breath” Wavetamer added “no” he said as he knew what she was going to do “but” “no” “Leafjumper we can’t trust anyone else to get it, we will just watch the stone until we know Treeseeker is alright and we have a solid plan but after that I’m the only one who can reach it” Wavetamer explained. Leafjumper reluctantly nodded and they walked back to the beach.

Leafjumper returned to Treeseeker while Wavetamer splashed in the ocean and spotted the sea dragon that was most likely a dark dragon with the queen as they entered the palace “she could be dead at any moment and not realise it” Wavetamer thought while going into the palace and sneaking behind a column that supported the place. “Oh, Currenttrailer isn’t it a lovely palace I have here” the queen cheered as she lifted into the air circled the place than landed on her throne “Currenttrailer? I guess you don’t want a threatening name if you want people to think you a non-threatening dragon” Wavetamer thought “yes but we should talk about the doom those dragonets could pose to your throne” Currenttrailer asked “what doom? those dragonets can’t even reach me” the queen laughed “but what if they enlist help from someone who can” he suggested.

Queen Waterruler now looked curious and so did the 10 other dragons in the room “Wavetamer seems to have developed a friendship with one of the forest dragons not to mention that she obviously is not the biggest fan of your marvellous reign” Currenttrailer continued “marvellous, isn’t that a bit of an exaggeration” Wavetamer thought “that is true” the queen said “she wouldn’t betray her tribe” her father said. Treeseeker, Leafjumper and several forest dragons who Leafjumper mentioned popped into her mind “not just my tribe” she thought. “We should set more guards around them and maybe Wavetamer shouldn’t be allowed on that island” Currenttrailer suggested and Wavetamer snuck back into the water and went to the island.

“The plan hasn’t changed but I will leave you this” Leafjumper said after hearing what happened, he placed the green stone in her talons “you’re trusting me” Wavetamer questioned. Leafjumper nodded “Wavetamer, time to go” the mother said as she came out of the water. Wavetamer covered the stone “ok” she said as she drooped her head and plunged into the water “they’ll be fine” she thought as she entered the house “did he do anything suspicious” the mother said as Wavetamer approached her sleeping room “I think he looked at a tree weirdly” Wavetamer joked before opening the door and entering the room. “Where to hide it” she thought as she closed the door. She put it under her sleeping space and slept.

She got up and checked on the stone, she grabbed a pouch that hang from the table and put the stone in it and pulled on the string and put it around her neck. She headed for the palace and hid behind the column again. Currenttrailer came in a short time later “hello my queen” he said at the queen who had her head lazily on the talon rest. “Hello Currenttrailer” the queen told while lifting her head off the throne. 2 guards walked through a hallway not far from the throne and perched themselves on either side of the throne “the forest dragon has shown signs that he is getting better” Currenttrailer said. Joy suddenly shot through her body “Treeseeker” she thought “and Wavetamer” the queen told “oh no I forgot to check if I was followed” she panicked but stood still “she’s closer than you think” he said in a triumphant tone while looking straight at her.

The guards sprang towards the column she was hiding behind. Wavetamer climbed up the pillar and leapt off it, towards the stone. The queen screamed “oh shush it I’m not aiming for you” she thought as her claws stretched towards the gem. A flash of blue hit her, and she hit the cold marble floor “what are you doing” the figure said to her “I could say the same to you” she said as she looked at the dragon who stood before her, Coralcrasher. Coralcrasher walked towards her, but she whacked him with her wing, rolled to her talons and hit one of the guards with her tail she shot up into the air and sprayed the floor with water causing the other guard to fall. She flew to the stone and the queen rushed out of her throne. Wavetamer took the stone and put it in her pouch, suddenly she was knocked and pinned to the ground by Currenttrailer.

His talon was raised in the air about to slash across her throat “wait” the queen told. Currenttrailer looked like he had an argument in his head and when he started to smirk Wavetamer knew what decision he made, and her claws sprang across his snout. Currenttrailer wobbled back and Wavetamer rushed to the exit, but the guards were already there blocking it. Wavetamer held her pouch and focused the water started to move and then suddenly pushed the guards out of the way and she drove straight into the water. She swam out of the palace and hid between some rocks near the hole. Coralcrasher came out and looked around and went towards the house. Currenttrailer came out and rushed towards the guards followed him. Wavetamer went after them while holding the pouch.

Wavetamer snuck on the beach as every dragon was distracted by Currenttrailer and the guards “where is she” Currenttrailer intimidated “how am I supposed to know” Leafjumper shouted “but I do” Wavetamer told before blasting a large blast of water at the 3 dragons. She rushed towards Leafjumper and fit Treeseeker on her back and they rushed in the forest “what went wrong” Leafjumper guessed. “doesn’t matter we got the gems” Wavetamer told. “There’s nothing this way except the ocean” Leafjumper told “well if you have a better idea” Wavetamer told. Leafjumper stopped running and looked around “actually I do” Leafjumper said like even he was surprised.

Leafjumper told her to give him the pouch and grab some vines and she followed his orders after carefully placing Treeseeker on the ground. When she came back Leafjumper had the pouch lying on the ground and he had some sticks “here are the vines” she said. “thanks” Leafjumper said as he picked them up and started tying them together to create a net. “That should at least slow them down” he said as he hid among the trees to the point where you could barely see it. He grabbed Treeseeker and carried him into the canopy “you coming?” he said before disappearing in the leaves Wavetamer followed him into the trees.

The sea dragons came not too much later and looked at the pouch and picked it up “those fools they left them here” Currenttrailer said before opening the pouch a roar of rage was followed by a net dropping on them. Leafjumper appeared in front of her “let’s go” he whispered, and they both went into the direction of the beach “what was in the pouch” Wavetamer asked “just stones I found by a tree” he said. Wavetamer felt like an idiot for not noticing the gems in Leafjumper’s hand. They reached the beach and they rushed to the shore “I should be able to carry you to the cliff” she said but was suddenly tackled across the sand.

Wavetamer was able to knock the dragon off her “really Coralcrasher is that all you can do” she huffed “you attacked an officer steal a stone for forest dragons” he growled “are you implying something here and what were you doing in the palace anyway” Wavetamer accused. Leafjumper stood there like he didn’t know if he should intervene, Coralcrasher glared at her “the answer to that question isn’t necessary” Coralcrasher told “I think it is” Wavetamer called “these dragons are evil” Coralcrasher pointed at Leafjumper and Treeseeker who was lying on Leafjumper’s back, Leafjumper gave him a puzzled look while Treeseeker had his eyes closed and his head lay perfectly along his neck.

“No there not, these are the only dragons you met, and they clearly don’t want to hurt anyone” Wavetamer argued “Currenttrailer met one and they nearly tricked him into killing the queen, but he saw through their lies” Coralcrasher said “what?” Wavetamer thought “what makes you think you can trust him” Wavetamer questioned “because he’s my father” Coralcrasher told. “you’re father?” Wavetamer asked “yes, his egg rolled out of the hatchery and people assumed it was an orphan, but Currenttrailer knew it was his egg” Coralcrasher said “he was lying to you” Leafjumper spoke up “I guess I was wrong there are some dragonets that are smart” a cackle spoke from the forest, followed by shining blue scales. “What?” Coralcrasher confusedly talked as Currenttrailer stood on the beach followed by the queen’s guards and few of the dragons that were guarding the island “I lied to you, I thought if I fed lies in your head about how bad the other tribes are you would spread the news and everyone would talk about how terrible the other tribes are but the only one you could convince was your pathetic mother” Currenttrailer explained. “Why?” Coralcrasher cried, Currenttrailer smirked. His body turned black, his gills disappeared, and blades poked out of the scales followed by the others “I’m guessing you didn’t send the others for backup” Wavetamer sighed.

Leafjumper quickly ran for cover as Coralcrasher and Wavetamer fought the dragons. A guard blasted fire at her which missed her by a millimetre but as he breathed in for another blast Wavetamer blasted water into his mouth and smoke started to billow out. She then charged into him and knocked him to the ground “we’re not going to be able to defeat all of them” she thought as she scanned the fight. A dark dragon lunged towards Coralcrasher, but Wavetamer pulled him out of the way and whacked the dragon with her tail “we need to get out of here” she said, “abandoning the sea kingdom never” Coralcrasher said “it’s better than dying here, we need to go” she said as she swerved away from a blade that was thrown towards her.

Leafjumper was hiding under a fallen tree that lay against another tree “I’ll carry Treeseeker, Coralcrasher you need to carry Leafjumper. They lifted into the air and went towards the ocean, but they were being followed by dark dragons who were blasting fire at them. Treeseeker’s eyes opened slowly and Wavetamer looked at his emerald, green eyes “um what did I miss” he said as he looked at the scenario “I’ll tell you later” Leafjumper told. Treeseeker looked at the water like he was in deep thought “I want you to dive in the water” Treeseeker suggested “what” Wavetamer gasped “trust me” he said as his claws went around her neck to stable himself “ok” she said and dived in the water followed by Coralcrasher.

She heard several other splashes, Treeseeker tugged a tiny bit and they surfaced again “what happened” she said as she looked back to not see any dragon following them. “A little bit of magic” Leafjumper answered as he lifted the sea blue stone “what are we going to do now” Coralcrasher said. “Us 2 decided to get all the stones before the dark dragons, you 2 can come if you want” Treeseeker told, joy rushed through her body again “I don’t think we have a choice” Coralcrasher grumbled “if we did the answer would still be yes” Wavetamer smiled cheerfully.

“One of us shouldn’t have both stones just in case” Leafjumper suggested as he reached his talon for Treeseeker to hold the forest stone “we’re almost there” Treeseeker reassured as Wavetamer tried to stay aloft. Suddenly black scales leapt out of the water and a silver blade was driven into Coralcrasher’s wing. he fell towards the ocean and Leafjumper lost hold of the stone. Wavetamer dove towards the 2 dragonets barrelling towards the sea and grabbed them as Currenttrailer splashed into the water with the stone. The dragonets landed in the cave by the cliff “I’m sorry” Coralcrasher said his eyes drifting to Wavetamer then Leafjumper and finally Treeseeker. blood drooled across the floor, Coralcrasher looked back at his sister “Wavetamer, I thought you were crazy but now I know you were always smarter than I ever could” Coralcrasher told. Wavetamer let her tears run down her face “I love you” she said to him before his eyes closed. No one said anything for a while “we should head for the ice kingdom” Wavetamer spoke, and the others nodded.

A dragon came crawling with a blue stone in hand “I got the stone master” he said “were you seen” the king grumbled “only by 2 forest and sea dragonets but I killed one so the others will be to scared” he smiled “these dragonets, there gathering” the king thought “send a message to our best spy in the ice kingdom” he told the tiny dragon compared to him “what for sir those dragonets, there” he started but he was cut off “gathering allies and stones, there a threat” the lord snapped and the dark dragon sped off. He turned towards the dragon beside him she was chained to the floor, her wings and snout were tied “your friends want power, they couldn’t care less about you” he said as he saw the look in his eyes “right?” a voice in the back of his head said.